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I used to like Wired but how this rubbish managed to get into publication is beyond me. The man needs his head examined.

Wired News: Weak Moment, Guilty Pleasure

With their proliferation, the world is awash in digital snapshots, and the art of photography dies a little more each day. These cameras are technological marvels, to be sure. But because they do virtually everything for you and require no effort beyond pointing and shooting, pointing and shooting is all that most people do.

He did get something right though

“One thing, and one thing only, determines the photographic art, and that’s the photographer behind the lens. Nothing else matters. Count on it: The digital age will produce no Alfred Stieglitz, no Margaret Bourke-White, no Ansel Adams unless the shooter possesses an artist’s soul and has mastered the craft.

Ok agree with you there mate. But then he talks a load of crap again ..

By all means, use your digital camera to take those family snaps. E-mail your images and amaze your easily amazed friends. Just don’t call it “photography.” Because it isn’t.”

Via: Involutionary Madness

I don’t know about his qualifications for other aspects of his job but I reckon this man is either delusional or deliberately trying to stir up trouble. I call the latter.

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